Stokely Athletics Center Demolition

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#27
Any non Tennessee'ns think this thread was about some really good Center named Stokely crushing people in games?
 
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Mini Me said:
I spent most of my college years at Stokely in the AF ROTC program. It is a great building.
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I don't know when you were in ROTC, but the place today is in disrepair. History is great, but there is no reason to salvage a dungeon for sentiment. Bulldoze it and construct something useful.

GoVols said:
I'm not sure if the building is up to code to house that many people, but if it is and someone brought it to Pearl's attention, he would darn sure make it happen!
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It is not up to code for what it currently houses. As I understand it, the firemarshall offered a temporary repreive until the AD can make other arrangements, but by all rights it shouldn't be open now.

GoVols2003 said:
They had to stop playing games last year and have to stop all practice activities after this year. The volleyball team moved to TBA. They have plans to build a new indoor track and volleyball facility/facilities near the soccer and softball complex.

They are moving the athletic offices to places in the football complex.

The AD is giving the real estate now occupied by Stokely back to the school (if you can even call it that) so that the school can use it for what I was told will be a new academic building.
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That's pretty much the situation as I understand it. The football complex will be expanded, FB will move to the new part, and the offices in Stokely will be moved to the space currently occupied by FB.
 
#30
#30
Well that's one of the 2 buildings I also visit, since going through ROTC there I always walk through when I'm back on Campus

Hate to see it go...
 
#31
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cotton said:
I don't know when you were in ROTC, but the place today is in disrepair. History is great, but there is no reason to salvage a dungeon for sentiment. Bulldoze it and construct something useful.
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yep.

place had turned into a dump. it's time.
 
#34
#34
That area of campus is going to be under major construction with stokley going down, the music building going down this year, and the construction of the new student health center
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architecturevol said:
i hope you are joking, it is the best looking building on campus by far. followed by ayres hall. concrete is an elegant and beautiful material that most people simply cannot understand. it was very nicely done with the poured in place method of construction. the point of th material was to have it stand out architecturally since it houses the college of architecture plus it makes since economically. the building is clear of its intentions and functionality. sure they could wash it every now and then and get rid of the damn art student graffiti, but it still looks good. the same cant be said for the remainder of campus with its random assortment of conflicting buildings with different types of brick. no uniformity whatsoever.
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No, the architecture building sucks, along with the crap they always put beside it referred to as "art". It's a drab, depressing building with the only cool parts being the offices that hang over the main open area.
 
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Unimane said:
No, the architecture building sucks, along with the crap they always put beside it referred to as "art". It's a drab, depressing building with the only cool parts being the offices that hang over the main open area.
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i don't know what you are talking about. have you actually taken classes in there?
 
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golfballs03 said:
i don't know what you are talking about. have you actually taken classes in there?
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No classes, but I attended a few functions there in my four years at UT. I can't believe anyone is getting upset about my characterization, everyone I knew hated the place.
 
#40
#40
The architecture building is awesome to architecture students only.

must be their higher understanding compared to us common folk.
 
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architecturevol said:
i hope you are joking, it is the best looking building on campus by far. followed by ayres hall. concrete is an elegant and beautiful material that most people simply cannot understand. it was very nicely done with the poured in place method of construction. the point of th material was to have it stand out architecturally since it houses the college of architecture plus it makes since economically. the building is clear of its intentions and functionality. sure they could wash it every now and then and get rid of the damn art student graffiti, but it still looks good. the same cant be said for the remainder of campus with its random assortment of conflicting buildings with different types of brick. no uniformity whatsoever.
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u, my friend, have been brainwashed by waaaay too many hours in that god forsaken place...it's different, i'll give u that, but that's all that's going for it

o, and wtf on concrete being an elegant and beautiful material? :huh: in certain cases i might agree, but not when it makes the building stick out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the campus
 
#42
#42
I'll never forget standing in line in Stokely to pick up my schedule my freshman year. August, no air conditioning, three-hour ordeal. I suppose it would be as hard to explain that to today's students as it would the house of horrors that the drop-add line at the UC used to be.

Funny how I saw Bernard King play there as a kid, and yet that one August day picking up my schedule is what I immediately associate with Stokely. It was awful.
 
#43
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Vercingetorix said:
I'll never forget standing in line in Stokely to pick up my schedule my freshman year. August, no air conditioning, three-hour ordeal. I suppose it would be as hard to explain that to today's students as it would the house of horrors that the drop-add line at the UC used to be.

Funny how I saw Bernard King play there as a kid, and yet that one August day picking up my schedule is what I immediately associate with Stokely. It was awful.
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But, but, the fans were on. :huh:

:p
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I'll never forget standing in line in Stokely to pick up my schedule my freshman year. August, no air conditioning, three-hour ordeal. I suppose it would be as hard to explain that to today's students as it would the house of horrors that the drop-add line at the UC used to be.

Funny how I saw Bernard King play there as a kid, and yet that one August day picking up my schedule is what I immediately associate with Stokely. It was awful.
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your right about that add/drop line it was brutal
 
#45
#45
n2motorsports said:
My office had a meeting at UT this morning w/ some folks from the Athletic Dept. and they are saying that Stokely will be torn down sometime in December. Better go visit her while you can!
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I was in school at UT before Stokely was built. I remember when it was built and saw some amazing events there. It will be missed by some of us old-timers, but some of the younger posters will have no emotion linked to its demise.
 
#46
#46
My mom works for blaine construction and they're doing 3 or 4 job sites for the university right now. They're doing neyland stadium, the new science building right across from UTPD and the parking lot next to stokley center. She told me tonight that there building a health center right next to the stokley center so i'm guessing the stokley center is going to be a parking lot or another part of this new health center.
 
#47
#47
im not so sure. they would have waited and put the health center right where SAC is as opposed to slapping it right in front of frat row
 
#48
#48
I don't know what the stokley center is going to be, All i know is the parking lot in front of the frat house is going to be a health center.
 
#49
#49
Ernie and Bernie, Dale Ellis, Reggie Johnson watching the lady vols turn into a national powerhouse and watching Gary Carters bomb to beat American U in the old volunteer classic and UT's domination over Kentucky there..Stokley was a true house of horrors for the Cats..I had some incredible times in that old building and some sad times too...Saw concerts there and so many other events....Hard to believe its not going to be there anymore.
 
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NO1VOLFAN said:
I don't know what the stokley center is going to be, All i know is the parking lot in front of the frat house is going to be a health center.
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:stop:

This is absurd, sir. :eek:

Where will the Greeks go to take their drunken Rho Iota Iota Phi (es)? :question:
:p
 
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